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The following press release is from PASS Racing, Inc.
Chris Staples Grabs Win #3 in PASS Modifieds
(Naples, ME – August 26, 2006) Chris Staples came into Saturday night’s 50-lap feature at Oxford Plains Speedway hot off a win at Riverside Speedway in Groveton, NH with a 16 point lead over Jason Taylor and a 20 point margin over Dana Grover in the 2006 point’s race. Dana had a lousy night at Riverside and gave up second in points to Jason, but he came to Oxford and predicted a podium finish.
At the green flag, Dale Cullivan of Palermo, ME in the #25 took the point followed by Steve Bennett, Jr of Buckfield, ME in the #12. By lap 5, Staples had the Dallas Oil #5 up to fifth from his tenth-place start, and by lap 10 he was challenging Cullivan for the lead. Two laps later Staples went around Cullivan and took the lead.
Grover, in the E.J. Prescott sponsored #99, was coming as well, and on lap 14 was challenging Bennett for third. The two went side-by-side until lap 18 when Bennett was trapped behind lapped traffic and Grover went to the outside and into third.
A quick yellow for a spin in turn four helped Grover close up on Staples and Cullivan for the restart. Cullivan’s #25 didn’t like the outside and Grover slipped by on the inside to second with Troy Morse of Bridgton, ME in the #6 following Grover through to third.
A little further back, the #2 of newcomer Gary Norris, Jr of W. Gardner, ME and the #8 of Searsmont’s Jason Taylor were making their way to the front. On lap 38, Norris was fourth and Taylor was right there as well.
The second yellow of the night fell on lap 45 for another spin in turn four, and Staples and Grover were drawn back to the field. On the restart, Grover was on the outside and was probably thinking about Cullivan’s problems on the earlier restart; Morse was third with Norris on the outside behind Grover.
Grover hung on the outside, but by the time they go to the backstretch Staples was pulling away and Dana settled into second, with Morse and Norris battling for third. At the line, it was Staples, Grover, Morse by a hair followed by Bennett, Taylor, Jeremy McCormick of Brooks, ME in the #73, Greg Ellis of Hermon in the #29, Cullivan, Dana Reed of Shapleigh, ME in the #60 who battled engine problems all night, the #1 of Larry Emerson of Durham, ME, the #05 of Dennis Scribner of Otisfield, Donnie Mehuren of Searsmont in the #76, and the #72 of Chad Dow of Fairfield, ME and Richie Morse of Waterville, ME in the #34, both of whom retired early with mechanicals woes.
Grover made it to the podium, but was one spot short of where he wanted to be and gave up a few more points to Staples who extended his slim point’s lead to 18. But Dana did jump over Taylor and regained second by four points over Taylor.
